An Oregon cyclist who was hit by an ambulance that made a right turn into him was charged $1,862 for the pleasure after the medics scooped his mangled body off the street, tossed him into the ambulance and drove him to hospital.

71-year-old cyclist William Hoesch was left with a fractured nose and other ‘scrapes and injuries’ across his body after being struck by the ambulance, and is now suing the ambulance provider – Columbia River Fire & Rescue – after they had the cheek to bill him $1,862 for the ride to hospital (as we know, you have to pay for these things in America).

Hoesch has filed a $997,000 lawsuit against the provider, which would help compensate not just for the initial bill, but also the $47,000 in medical expenses he’s racked up so far, and the further $50,000 he expects in the future.

I mean, is this the perfect example of ‘adding insult to injury’ or what? If you can, imagine being a cyclist just riding along and minding your own business, when out of nowhere an ambulance (of all vehicles) smashes into you and leaves you a crumpled heap on the floor. And then, as if to only take the absolute p1ss, they bill you nearly $2000 for a lift to the hospital, where you incur even further life-changing bills. Is there anywhere else in the world where something that ridiculous can happen to a person, or is it only in America?

Honestly, it’s crazy that anyone would be OK with this and so I hope that 71-year-old William Hoesch gets his money or at least some kind of compensation or justice out of it.

Otherwise ambulances can just keep doing this to random people in the street and it’s essentially an infinite money-making hack. We can’t be having that, can we?

For the 42-stone drug dealer who was so fat they had to build a make-shift courtroom in the back of an ambulance, click HERE.